And her old Uncle William used to say a lady is known byher shoes and her gloves.

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.

It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.

Life stand still here.

Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

To love makes one solitary.

Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!

Septimus has been working too hard" - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought.

This late age of the world’s experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears.

She came from the most worthless of classes - the rich, with a smattering of culture.

If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.

You don't die when your body stops functioning. You die when your name is uttered for the last time in the world.

Life is an intricate play with actors waiting for an explanation. Each added act confers a new interpretation of the story. ( "Waiting for the pieces to fall into place" )

You claim to love God, and yet you disobey GodThis is a bizarre way of reasoningSurely, the lover, if his love is true, Is most obedient to the one he loves.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.

Someday she will be saved, and the past and all its pain will be rendered as smoothly palatable as the food we spoon to our babies.

Wisdom knows when to return death's embrace.

One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate.